Contemporary mining poetry in Peru

Abstract

The purpose of this article is two levels of analysis: on the one hand, it examines the milestones of mining poetry from its beginnings to the end of the 20th century in the context of the process of Peruvian poetry, the marginal position of the genre is noted, the lack of studies in which some poems by César Vallejo and José María Eguren stand out as foundations of the first mining poetic proposals; On the other hand, three poets from the Andean center of Peru are attacked, in which the aesthetic features of contemporary mining poetry are identified. It reviews the collections of poems by Ángel Garrido Espinoza, Hugo Apéstegui Ramírez and stops at the examination of the collection of poems Oro y ashes by Luis Pajuelo Frías, which is the most representative book of this period. Methodologically it is divided into two levels of analysis; Firstly, we trace the historical level of the collection of poems, the poetic instances that determine the time of wealth and misfortune of Cerro de Pasco; Secondly, we besiege the discourse, the place from which the poetic voice speaks, the mechanism of the change and polyphony of voices until culminating in the tragic destiny of a people. With this, we value mining poetry, the poetics of Pajuelo, unknown to most of the literary critics in Peru.